a unique russian observatories sent into war bit to study galactic objects. next the taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack or those murders come less than a week after how many cars i was half brother around the country was gunned down the taliban's stepping up its assault on afghan officials right now just as name. combat troops begin to withdraw indeed on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces with more on the situation unfolding in afghanistan let's talk to on the war. here brian very good evening chief thanks for being an r.t. international these latest attacks on senior official show that the taliban is still a substantial force to be reckoned with without the mind of nato forces doing the right thing by withdrawing now. well the nato forces are facing. a dilemma they're on the horns of a dilemma they can't win by

causes half brother was assassinated the taliban claimed responsibility for the killing describing it as one of its biggest achievements in a decade meanwhile the us led coalition started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces but journalist gerry van dyke he's been held hostage by the tenet and says the u.s. led efforts in the region was seriously undermined by the death of consonance brother. while the karzai it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to tell focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon what the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard in others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban

tackling the taliban. the clock's ticking for america's rival politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt congress needs to raise the current fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling to avoid the folding and president obama wants parties to ignore their differences to avert armageddon but leading credit rating agencies are already threatening to downgrade america's aaa credit score for the first time in over ten years they say there is a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effect that way alice maxwells believes america's debt addiction means there won't be a quick cure. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken the situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget the total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully had deals struck it has become the political

could find themselves gravitating towards the taliban. one of the one of the problems that we have had in the past ten years it hasn't been the strength of the taliban that has gravitated to the equation towards them but it has been the weakness and the ill fated decision making process both in afghanistan and elsewhere regarding up on the stand so i think it's very important that we are very careful and measured with what we do because the civilian population of population is ignored both by war and by civilian reconstruction and that's what counts but unfortunately priorities every time there's a war is where priorities during wars are on success not on civilian people who are really the. main thing that we should pay attention to if i may jump in here briefly i do apologize we are running low on time but you worked in the afghan government is president karzai is he strong enough to oppose the taliban on his own does influence and power stretch wide enough in the country do you think. no no government whether it's a are on the other government is capable of fighting the taliban a

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raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato as a new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for the war effort earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own guards and in a separate incident one of president karzai is top advisers was also gunned down u.s. anti-war activism brian becker thinks the coalition may be losing ground in afghanistan with a number of casualties rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of cars eyes brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of

insurgents targeting we can work being handed over to the taliban won't be so eager to fight runs foreign forces have gone nuts and willing to take on the best say afghan war veteran member of the think afghanistan. the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by us leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because their base of your party is afghan so you're going to see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in college just for the most part now as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government which i'll be and will begin to reconcile itself with the population and become more congenial simply because it has to if it wants to be taken seriously by the population generally speaking that afghans. better off with governing themselves without the united states because the forces provided security for them because as you seem we know unintentionally killed a lot of people and

east africa's worst drought in decades. the taliban has described the assassination of the afghan president's half brother as one of its biggest achievements in a decade head of kandahar's provincial council was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday and journalist valentine who's written extensively on the afghan war says the death is a blow to the u.s. led military effort. he was a power broker provided a lot of stability here at the heart which of course is one of the key provinces. a place where o.b.l. was growing where a lot of people that his absence will not affect the drug trafficking there is plenty of other people who are going to step in his absence has more into his role as a conduit to the taliban itself he was actually very political you or. the u.s. and the cia as somebody who could. represent their interests in negotiations with the taliban and he was considered a very very tough negotiator for the united states he was someone who represented u.s. policy rather than. policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. wit

taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by the u.s. leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because there will be fighting it's afghan syria see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part as the taliban comes into the peace process comes into the afghan government the taliban will begin to reconcile itself with the population and become more congenial simply because it has to if it wants to be taken seriously by the population generally speaking to afghans are better off with governing themselves without the united states or the coalition forces providing security for them because as we've seen we have unintentionally killed a lot of people and i think we would be foolish to sit here and think that the u.s. is leaving we're not leaving there will be permanent u.s. involvement in nato involvement for a long time. well elsewhere across the globe this hour in the u.s. has an a

taliban won't be that easy to fight once foreign forces are gone according to jake the better. a member of the rethink afghanistan movement. the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in southern afghanistan so by us leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to find as much because they're basically fighting it's afghans you're going to see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part but i think that generally speaking the afghans are better off. governing themselves without united states because she course has provided security for them because as we've seen we unintentionally killed a lot of people so if afghans are killing afghan doubt it's better off. nato. and i think we would be foolish to sit here and think that the us is leaving we're not leaving there will be a minute u.s. involvement in nato involvement for a long time. look at some other international headlines the u.s. has announced it will send humanitarian aid to famine

country that seven specifically targeting the beacons on the home but the taliban won't be that's needed to fight foreign forces have gone according to the better. a member of the rethink afghanistan one points. taliban it has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by us leaving you're going to seem a taliban basically not want to find as much because if you're fighting if afghans you're going to see an afghan peace process take place because i fear generally speaking i don't want to really fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part but i think that generally speaking the afghans are better off with governing themselves without united states of equalization which is providing security for them because as we've seen we unintentionally killed a lot of people so if afghans are going out against don't it's going to rock the united states or nato or went after us and i think we would be foolish to stay here and thank god the us is leaving we're not leaving there will be a minute u.s. involvement in nato involvem

card lottery have seen their luck run out on their way to the united states. and. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's impedes local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack the murders come less than a week. rather around the south of the country was gunned down the taliban stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops begin to withdraw. there the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but on the war activity brown told the trail the military base is a big left behind. i would question to what extent they really want to leave clearly they have to present themselves as leaving whether they really intend to leave i think you can gauge by for example the amount of construction that's going on at places. nato bases at places like kandahar about graham and so on which look very permanent and involve hundreds of millions of dollars but certainly some process is go

run out on their way to the united states. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president's senior adviser in the capital kabul along with one of the country's m.p.'s local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack. the murders come less than a week after how many cars eyes half brother seen as the most powerful figure in southern afghanistan was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assaults on afghan officials as nato troops begin to withdraw on sunday the alliance handed over control of the first of seven designated areas to local forces but anti-war activist brian becker says the wave of afghanistan's summations only proves that the us has achieved nothing during its war there. when by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the taliban but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must

country with insurgent specifically targeting the regions are going to be sunday and the taliban could fight once foreign forces are gone according to you say lasting longer and a member of we think afghanistan me and. the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghanistan so by the u.s. leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because they're going to be fighting it out of cancer to see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to do is fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part and i think that generally speaking the afghans are better off with governing themselves without the united states of caution forces providing security for them because as we've seen we have unintentionally killed a lot of people so it's afghans are going out against that that's better off the united states or nato killing afghans and i think we would be foolish to sit here and think that the u.s. is leaving we're not leaving there will be permanent u.s. involvement

an afghan girl just bigger by taliban extremists singletary missed the shopping and inspired shocking because one cannot get such atrocious injuries calmly and inspiring because the guys on bail the girls will to leave even after suffering such beastly brutality jordi bieber is not new to the w.p.a. competition she wanted eight times already. the jury describes the nature of b.b. i. it is one of those totals which is immediately recognized as a triumph for charlie's. whole julian thank you very much for coming thanks for having me it's a pleasure for me to having on the show well first of all i read that when somebody told you that you won the world press photo would you report and say you're joking i can't believe it is that true well why couldn't you but you're not going to will go out you know as you said in your all previously that i had won eight will place awards before never in a million years would i ever have thought i would have won the overall prize and at the same time because of all the controversy that was surrounding the photograph i thought that the jury would

. in kandahar ahmed wali karzai was murdered in his home there on choose the taliban as describe the assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and the regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. when we can find more on our web site it's dot com including the latest news blogs and expert analysis and here's what's in the moment should you go on a snap shot from the start about this you could soon be able to see a picture of yourself taken from orbit with special spy cameras installed at the international space station plus. catwalk to catfight world of beauty turns ugly with far from model behavior at a russian fashion show. the full story behind the high heels hostilities at r.t. dot com. well i'll be back with a summary of the main news stories for in about ten minutes from now in the meantime we asked the man in charge of the drug effort in russia how the country is tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe that's our special interview n

its focus on the police to the problem that. the taliban assassinates more high ranking officials in afghanistan as nato begins to hand over control of the country's provinces to local forces placing huge question marks over their ability to probe. and the russian security forces oil a major terror plot in moscow which is believed could have caused huge loss of life . welcome this is r t it's eleven pm monday night here in moscow is kevin zero in with you this hour with our top story the former news of the world reporter who was the paper's first ex employee to say the senior executives encouraged phone hacking has been found dead at his home police say there don't appear to be any suspicious circumstances shawn hole was quoted by the new york times as saying that illicit phone tapping was widely used as a means of finding stories and then editor andy colson calls the most recently served as david cameron's media adviser and has denied the claims it comes as pressure grows around the prime minister after the ex top cop who resigned in the wake of the scandal took a swipe at the ruthl

rest in kandahar cause i was murdered in his home there on tuesday the taliban has described the assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to the funeral. remember there are plenty of other stories available a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now. following the world's most famous and notorious whistleblower after a high court in london defers his extradition to sweden. and the u.s. army under attack as hackers released the e-mail addresses and passwords of almost one hundred thousand soldiers this and much more click away. and finally in this news block we asked the man in charge of the entitled drug efforts in russia how the country is tackling the flow of illegal substances from europe and central asia interviews coming up. the problem of drugs. anywhere no matter how much we fight it. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs. thank you very much for joining us today according to

you can bet your life not one of those tanks will find its way to afghanistan to fight the taliban nor will they will they find their way into iraq to fight al qaida and the taliban. they are so clearly literally tearing her prefer search perverse forms of islam is not an agenda to lead us to be attacked is i mean was that of all do we have a woman's decision to wear a certain type of clothing what on earth. are in the rock concert and how did you realize it or even towards your salary you say like we're very lucky because i'd like to ask you let me give you the last word in the program and then the biggest where do you think the multiculturalism discussion is going to go now in europe after this horrific event. i think people with common sense will see that we need to be one society with many cultures and we need to be on the front four which is being positive building relationships understanding each other i think the rhetoric of what's the even represents and his organization represents is is the cause of the things that we have just like it is for any religion any ideology extr

. >> reporter: we first meet joey jones in afghanistan. the financial base of the taliban. helmand is the deadliest province. do you feel like you're ready to retire? >> i'm jest getting started. >> reporter: and 23-year-old jones has one of the most tang rouse job, bomb disposal. >> it's a big deal for the country and the guys behind you. i saw an opportunity to do a little bit more. >> reporter: he's from dalton, georgia. a father of a 2-year-old boy. on this day, a tip comes in. jones and his team prepare for a tough day. >> bad day is coming out and doing our jobs and something going on. >> reporter: there are no big bomb suits. they prepare to detonate the ied. there's an achingly long silence, an then -- the blast rings in our ears. we walk to the crater. a local resident says there are three more this the area. >> get them out of here. >> reporter: hearts pounding, we follow our own footsteps across the canal. >> it is a good day. >> reporter: after we leave, jones updates our team with facebook messages. >> we have worked more ieds than any marine team in the country since march.

names meanwhile washington's biggest lender china is rapidly losing its patience to. the taliban can mountain is read in protest against poor living conditions song already drawing comparisons with the tidy el prize of the school egypt's new i'll stick in february. time now to delve into the world of scientific research and breakthroughs with the latest edition of technology update. hello and welcome to technology update are you tired of paying those overblown electric bills at the end of each month this could be the answer you've been waiting for a lot of the energy and with it a lot of the harder and caskets burn out by crummy old incandescent light bulbs but what if i could get you a lot more light and waste way less wattage in the process and up and coming russian companies just open a huge new production facility to help make that energy efficient dream a reality. doesn't meet my sleazy sales pitch the high tech brainchild of a trio of russian scientist was born abroad and is now returned to russia to cover ribbon on a shiny new factory at the outskirts of st petersburg aside fr

afghanistan to fight the taliban nor will it will they find their way into iraq to fight al qaida and the taliban. military her prefer search perverse forms of islam is not the jewel to wheedle us to be attacked is to me was like all of do with a woman's decision to wear certain type of clothing what on earth are you. trying to run. and how do you know you guys are you going towards your salary is a lie we're very lucky because i decided to ask you to give you the last word in the program and in the near figs i where do you think the multiculturalism discussion is going to go now in europe after this horrific event. i think people with common sense will see that we need to be one society with many cultures and we need to be on the front four which is positive building relationships understanding each other i think the rhetoric of what stephen represents and his organization represents is is the cause of the things that we have just like it is for any religion any ideology extremists you know we need to shun them we need to marginalize them and unfortunately stephen represents those kind o

recruiting drug addicts and people with taliban connections. from challenges in space to those here on earth artie's so be sure not to interviews one of the first humans to step food on the moon buzz aldrin he told r.t. that the landing is the most important part of an astronaut's mission his interviews up next. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always wanted to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that says that. we're not alone but i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where there are no there's no evidence but you think you. know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information and we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation mediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either either a testing. unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there are many many explanations for things that are unidentified and talks many of those explanations are in your backyard there's something that you just

regions that are the taliban in that fight foreign forces and gone so says the better r.t. blogger and a member of the rethink afghanistan. the taliban has grown as a result of continued u.s. presence in the southern afghan. stan so by us leaving you're going to see the taliban basically not want to fight as much because there are going to be to be fighting it's afghans you're going to see an afghan peace process take place because afghans generally speaking don't want to silly fight with each other they just simply want to live in coexist for the most part but i think generally speaking that afghans are better off with governing themselves without the united states and coalition forces providing security for them because as we've seen we have unintentionally killed a lot of people so if afghans are killing afghans doubt it's better off then the united states or nato coming at us and i think we would be foolish to sit here and think that the us is leaving we're not leaving there will be permanent us involvement in nato been bogged down for a long time. sometimes you have to be to reach

stories tonight the pakistani taliban claims that they are holding two swiss tourists it is now a bit earlier this month the militants say they will release them if the u.s. frees imprisoned female pakistani scientist the taliban provided no proof but they say the hostages are in good health this was couple was seized while on holiday in the southern province of the first of july. the first funerals for the victims of norway's gun and bomb attacks have been held and also a week after the tragedy after a memorial service in the capital crowds gathered leaving a massive floral tribute to the seventy six of die in while the man who's confessed to both the massacre and bombing is being questioned for a second time by police. believe pictures this is the also the power of a massive landslide just want everything in its path in south korea is the result of heavy shelling renshaw rain and floods are sweeping the country right now leaving fifty three dead so many. landslides also thought from sent parts of north korea landmines to washington. but it's one of our top stories this hour europe's

investigations also the news is friday night the pakistani taliban claim they're holding two swiss tourists who were kidnapped earlier this month the militants say the release them if the u.s. frees an imprisoned female pakistani scientist the taliban move out of no proof but say the hostages are in good health the swiss couple were seized while on holiday in a southern province on the first of july. the first funerals of the victims of norway's gun and bomb attacks have also been held in oslo a week after the tragedy after a memorial service in the capital crowds gathered leaving a massive floral tribute to the seventy seven who died meantime the man whose confessed to both the massacre and bombing is being questioned for a second time by police. serbian protesters and causes more for blocking a convoy of nato vehicles from reaching the base hundreds had barricaded the road in response to the alliance taking control of two border crossings on kosovo's border with serbia on thursday nato moved in after course of and security forces sent special police to the checkpoints in the area the serbs th

it's too early you say the timing is accidental isn't it more symbolic from the taliban. well if if if if if a person killed at any point in time and wasn't with the person one knows it would have to wait for another time so here's this symbolism in the all i would say is more determination and symbolism bill i mean i meet these people very bitter women liberated country very brave is exactly what the vietnamese did they were here for occupation the afghan resistance which is what i call them they will not stand for resist those basic above feel wage will grow below where obama came and offers there were thirty thousand u.s. troops near the tree more than triple the number of one hundred thousand now we clear so he says to one for a ten thousand but the end of the shia more next year well they need to change their plans if there's one more important recall involved not only under a hundred thousand u.s. troops thirty or forty thousand other troops there are well over one hundred thousand private security contractors blackwater types they were. included i had mercenaries you never he

aftermath of a taliban attack in kabul. a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners earlier this year taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests join a guest house used by u.n. staffers. last year another attack on hotels there's no word for your. examples are strewn through the near decade war kamil your aftermath we have any takedown here in the south only now americans heard this declaration before news of the blast we're starting this drawdown from a position of strength about u.s. plans to begin pulling troops out of afghanistan but there are declarations on the ground from afghan activists and military might that slipped a different mark the marquess never come by a democracy by militant gratian democracy by cluster bomb my wife thought was quite masacre by pumping our other parties and in washington talk of winding down war in one country does not wind down talk of tackling the global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to neighbors should be refocusing resources on pakistan yemen somalia parts of north africa and other locations i've always believed pakistan is more special than wh